Like, I like the show, mainly because of Angela Bassett, but like I laughed a lot at shit I know I should not laugh at
Like, I like the show, mainly because of Angela Bassett, but like I laughed a lot at shit I know I should not laugh at
Don't worry, no one in this thread will judge you for enjoying garbage TV. Lord knows I watched too many Lifetime/Hallmark White Lady Cosy Murder Mystery shows over the holidays and enjoyed them way too much, including laughing at very inappropriate times.Like, I like the show, mainly because of Angela Bassett, but like I laughed a lot at shit I know I should not laugh at
that's a logline.ZDF Enterprises, the commercial subsidiary of German broadcaster ZDF, is partnering with U.K. production banner Tuvalu Entertainment for One Bad Apple, a high-end female-led drama series billed as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Clueless meets Riverdale and The Omen, wrapped around Indiana Jones."
Into my veins it goes.The drama, unveiled Thursday, was written by father-daughter duo Gavin Scott (The Young Indiana Jones, Small Soldiers) and Rebecca Scott (Discovery's Blood Relative, Murder Among Friends), and is set in and around a rural British boarding school after it takes in a new student: the Devil's own daughter. Enrolled at the school purposefully for its location near the burial place of The Holy Grail, which is preventing Satan's return to Earth, the new pupil – described as the "female equivalent of Darth Vader" – soon begins to spread her influence, but comes up against a plucky scholarship girl who, it transpires, comes from a long line of women sworn to defend the ancient artefact.
Love it. Sounds like it will either be great or delightful trash.Speaking of garbage TV;
ZDF Enterprises, Tuvalu Team for Female-Led Supernatural TV Drama 'One Bad Apple'
that's a logline.
Into my veins it goes.
That sounds awful. How can I watch this?Speaking of garbage TV;
ZDF Enterprises, Tuvalu Team for Female-Led Supernatural TV Drama 'One Bad Apple'
that's a logline.
Into my veins it goes.
Ryssdal: When you finally came up with your pitch, because you're Mike Schur of "Parks and Rec" fame et cetera, et cetera. I imagine people said: "Yes, please come do the show with us."
Schur: Well you're very kind to say that. The actual situation was when "Parks and Recreation" ended, NBC asked me to do another show for them and sort of promised me that I could kind of skip the line as it were and just get a show on the air.
Ryssdal: "So, the answer to your question Kai, is yes."
Schur: Yes. Yeah. They basically said "we'll just give you a 13-episode guarantee," which is a very rare thing and I felt very fortunate. And so, I'm a hard worker, I would say, so I spent a lot of time crafting the idea because I want it to not feel like I was taking advantage of their generosity.
More via the link.Ryssdal: That's so funny, you have to fight for more money. I always just imagined that the for-profit land is like, here have as much money as you want!
Schur: No, no, no. No, the opposite. They are trying to minimize the amount of money that they spend on your product. And, by the way, let's take for example like a hiatus week. So, you shoot four or five episodes in a row, then you have a built-in hiatus week where the writing staff can sort of regroup and regenerate, and you have a little more time to relax. Those hiatus weeks are expensive because you have to pay to hold your crew across that week. So, those hiatus weeks are several hundred thousand dollars of money that's just being thrown away – not thrown away given to the crew to hold them.
Ryssdal: But not productively, yeah.
Schur: Right. So, what happens when they want to cut costs? Well, they start saying, "do you really need that hiatus week, or can it be three hiatus days?" So, you have to know everything about the way the economics of the show work, in order to be able to fight for the territory that you really need.
That is because they didn't usually bother coloring The CW in the past.
Is that guy in the background jerking his chicken?So apparently the TV creator of Happy! actually has plans for a season 2 if it can happen. I can't imagine that's at all possible with such low ratings and hardly any advertisers, but...
Fuck. Hope no cliffhanger this season. We've been enjoying it so far. Thought it was doing well in the ratings (premiere, anyway).So apparently the TV creator of Happy! actually has plans for a season 2 if it can happen. I can't imagine that's at all possible with such low ratings and hardly any advertisers, but...
This sounds like the kind of trash I was expecting Riverdale to be. Give it to me.Speaking of garbage TV;
ZDF Enterprises, Tuvalu Team for Female-Led Supernatural TV Drama 'One Bad Apple'
that's a logline.
Into my veins it goes.
Everyone that doesn't watch it should be banned.To celebrate their Golden Globe wins, Amazon is making the entire first season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel available free for streaming between Friday, Jan. 12 - Monday, Jan. 15.
It's a great series, so I highly recommend everyone check it out.
There are some levels even I wouldn't go to and mentioning Black Sails and The Strain in close proximity is one of them.
It's truly insulting to a masterpiece like The Strain to be compared to some pirate show.
Jade Chang will adapt her novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent — and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together. Jon M. Chu (G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, Now You See Me 2 and the upcoming Crazy Rich Asians take from Warner Bros.) will direct should the script move to pilot at Hulu. Bridget Bedard (Transparent, Mad Men) will supervise.
BritBox, the streaming service from BBC Worldwide and ITV that provides a collection of British TV content in the U.S., on Thursday unveiled its first original, drama series The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco.
The spinoff of mystery drama The Bletchley Circle will be produced by Omnifilm Entertainment in association with BritBox and World Productions, the producer of the original show. Set to premiere later this year, it is formatted as four stories, each unfolding over two episodes.
No. No. No. As someone who watched the original Bletchley Circle (because of course I did), taking two of the less interesting characters and moving them to the US is just a bad idea. Absolutely nothing about this sounds enticing, and I found the original series to be merely watchable (and the second series was a noticeable step down already).The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco picks up in 1956 and follows two of the original lead characters, Millie (Rachel Stirling) and Jean (Julie Graham), as they travel to America and join forces with two U.S. code breakers to tackle a string of new murder cases. "Using their unique skills and intellectual abilities, the four women solve complex mysteries that baffle local law enforcement," according to a show description.
Maybe. I think it's hard to predict what Disney will opt to do with Hulu, and whether other partners will want to hang around, given various priorities and the different types of content they current deliver (current network/cable content, catalog shows/movies, originals, etc). I would fully expect Disney to go hardcore walled off garden with its new family service and the shows developed for that, especially since most of that content will spring from their own internal IP.Once the Disney deal goes through and Disney has control over Hulu, I expect them to keep Hulu content on Hulu exclusively. Seems like a corporate thing to do to force people to stay subscribed to watch shows.
Hot on the heels of his tour de force with "The Big Sick," Kumail Nanjiani has attached himself as an actor and writer for an upcoming TV adaptation of "My Beautiful Laundrette" being developed at Turner-owned Super Deluxe.
Alec Berg ("Silicon Valley") and Hanif Kureishi (writer of the original "Laundrette") will executive produce with Stephen Gaghan ( "Traffic"). The serialization of "Laundrette" will be based on the Oscar-nominated 1985 indie film starring Daniel Day-Lewis. The film revolved around a young British man of Pakistani heritage and his white boyfriend, a former gang leader, who take on running a London laundromat owned by the British-Pakistani man's uncle. The film was lauded for its portrayal of the gay and immigrant communities. No network or streaming service has yet sealed a deal for the project.
Nanjiani, who will co-write and and star in the series in a yet unnamed role...
Hate-watch 2018 commencing...
Oh great, now people will hate him because he's writing about an Asian man dating a white man. :pHollywood Reporter says Westworld returns this spring...
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Kumail Nanjiani to Write and Star in 'My Beautiful Laundrette' TV Series
Bloys also mentioned that True Detective S3 starts production in February and will be a 2019 show.
It's in trouble because its airing specials that nobody cares about until its shows are back next week? Ok.
Where did you get that from?
Let's just say it was hosted by Olivia Munn.
G4's Olivia Munn?
I liked Monsters quite a bit, not sure how it will hold up as a TV show, but the premise isn't unworkable.British sci-fi horror film Monsters is being turned into a television series by Vertigo Films for UK broadcaster Channel 4. The feature was the directorial debut of Star Wars spin-off Rogue One and Godzilla helmer Gareth Edwards.
I understand that Top Boy creator Ronan Bennett will act as showrunner with up-and-coming British writers Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan and Marlon Smith writing.
Daniel Dae Kim's 3AD production company, which is behind breakout ABC drama series The Good Doctor, is developing First Rule of Ten, based on the successful books by Gay Hendricks and Tinker Lindsay, as a television series. Kim has partnered with Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) on the project
I hate this alreadyReleased by Hay House Visions in 2011, First Rule of Tenfocuses on a young monk, who after years spent struggling with the teachings of his Tibetan monastery, leaves to find his identity in the unlikeliest of places – Los Angeles. There, he's forced to reconcile the differences between the Buddhist teachings he's grown up with and the new fast-paced lifestyle filled with temptations. His path to self-discovery becomes further complicated when he witnesses a brutal crime and becomes inextricably entwined in its investigation.